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He had an emotional advantage. He had spoken with her and she has spoken back, wanting something from him…The strain between them, the hostility he felt- it was better than nothing, he decided. It was an emotion of some sort they shared… It occurred to him that her husband was going out of her life in the same way he himself once had… Neither he nor Hatsue had wanted the war to come- neither of them had wanted that intrusion. But now her husband was accused of murder, and that changes things between them.” (pg.326)
I think this shows a significant turning point in the story from Ishmael’s point of view. Due to the storm that ensues, the snow coincidentally brings Hatsue and Ishmael together, a broken down car. She pleads to him the unfairness of her husband’s trial and asked that he write about this. He now sees that she is hurting, not him alone. Later, he comes across information on a freighter that could have caused a serious wake resulting in Carl falling from his lantern post to his death at sea. It’s in his hands whether to create a miserable life for Hatsue, like he believed she caused him, by keeping the information in his pocket or save the man she loved.
which is also painful, this tells a lot about his character. And hopefully find closure in this.
I actually liked the last scene of the movie better than the conclusion to the text. In both the film and the book there is a scene in which Ishmael has recently returned from the war to see the lost love of his life having established a family, a life with another man. He pleads to her that the only way he will keep his sanity and be able to move on with his life is if he can hold her and smell her hair one last time. This she does not permit and he goes on hurting with no closure. At the end of the film Ishmael presents the piece of evidences crucial to the release and innocence of Miyamoto. Upon leaving the court room, Hatsue runs to Ishmael and tells him, “You can hold me now” and they embrace, snow lightly fallen around them. I think it was very appropriate in presenting that overall “happy ending” instead in the book you are left with Ishmael lonely recollection on the truth behind Carl Heine’s death while he sits at his typewriter. This is effective in giving us an step by step account of the fisherman’s real death in comparison to all the considered truths presented in court, but you lose a warm feeling I it as well.
I think this shows a significant turning point in the story from Ishmael’s point of view. Due to the storm that ensues, the snow coincidentally brings Hatsue and Ishmael together, a broken down car. She pleads to him the unfairness of her husband’s trial and asked that he write about this. He now sees that she is hurting, not him alone. Later, he comes across information on a freighter that could have caused a serious wake resulting in Carl falling from his lantern post to his death at sea. It’s in his hands whether to create a miserable life for Hatsue, like he believed she caused him, by keeping the information in his pocket or save the man she loved.
which is also painful, this tells a lot about his character. And hopefully find closure in this.
I actually liked the last scene of the movie better than the conclusion to the text. In both the film and the book there is a scene in which Ishmael has recently returned from the war to see the lost love of his life having established a family, a life with another man. He pleads to her that the only way he will keep his sanity and be able to move on with his life is if he can hold her and smell her hair one last time. This she does not permit and he goes on hurting with no closure. At the end of the film Ishmael presents the piece of evidences crucial to the release and innocence of Miyamoto. Upon leaving the court room, Hatsue runs to Ishmael and tells him, “You can hold me now” and they embrace, snow lightly fallen around them. I think it was very appropriate in presenting that overall “happy ending” instead in the book you are left with Ishmael lonely recollection on the truth behind Carl Heine’s death while he sits at his typewriter. This is effective in giving us an step by step account of the fisherman’s real death in comparison to all the considered truths presented in court, but you lose a warm feeling I it as well.